Excellent topic.





My opinion is that animals sold need to be represented to the best of your knowledge. If it is red call it red. If it is not red but comes from a red line, disclose that when you sell. Who did you get it from? Who did they get it from, etc. It doesn't hurt to show pics of the parents or sibs as well.

Hognose genetics are extremely variable. Some reds fade with age while others intensify. Some have a pink look while others have a purple look.

Another consideration to make is that pictures may do some injustice to an animals true color. Unfortunately reds, purples, greens, oranges, and yellows are diluted under camera flashes or some lights. Snakes need to be compared with their photograph for accurate representation.



You should be able to call a line, a trait, a selected animal whatever you want, but you need to clarify what it is. Is it a proven morph or an unproven. It takes time to figure out whether an oddity(color or pattern) is an random anomaly or an inheritable one. If you sell it, say what it is.



As far as coining a certain color or pattern yours, I don't know that it can truly be done. You can say that you selectively bred a snake, a line, etc, but every line or morph or snake came from the wild originally. That being said, another could pop up elsewhere.

I have had the awesome privilege over the last ten or so years to see thousands of hognoses both CB and WC from the collection of Richard Evans, formerly of West Texas Reptiles.

He was the first to selectively breed certain traits that we enjoy today in the hognose world. Consider that the first orange albino was a wild-collected adult male. The first pink pastel was a WC subadult male. The second pink pastel was collected in the wild as a juvenile. The first jungle, Tpos, & melanistic were captive born to WC gravid females. While Richard was the first to breed them in captivity, he by no means created them.

Others often coined their aberrant hognoses jungles. They just clarified that they hatched them from their lines and not Evans' line.

So to clarify, Say "Evans' jungle" or "Tims jungle" or "sara's jungle",etc



We are fortunate enough in the hognose world to have Ball python, boa, leos, and corn morphs to kind of show us the way.

Multiple-line same genetic morphs are classified by persons name, business name, or descriptive name.



Caramel BP: Nerd line or bell line or caramel

albino leos: rainwater or tremper

albino boa: Sharp or Kahl

Het lucy BP: het russo or lesser or butter or mojave

Cinder corn: Z or ashy





So to sum it up, call it what you will, but clarify.












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Kevin Rhodes



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